Hindustani classical music played on a river boat in Banaras.
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Are music bans in India and Pakistan an appropriation of art and performances by nationalist imperatives?
Not all protestors were as peaceful as Gandhi.
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The road to independence was not a simple tale of civil disobedience.
The people who live on the Niyamgiri mountain have tried to say no to mining. But the government is not listening.
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Local people in India are supposed to be protected by progressive laws. But the reality is a far cry from that.
Bring in your business, but not your people.
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Theresa May is looking to India for trade and investment, but it’s undermined by her anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Cyrus Mistry pictured leaves after a meeting in Mumbai, Oct 26.
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Theresa May was supposed to meet with bosses of the Indian conglomerate, but an age-old issue with the family firm has got in the way.
Students turn out for the ‘One Billion Rising’ movement, to end violence against women worldwide.
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India’s economy keeps growing, but women’s rights are going backwards: why?
Delhi: in need of clean air and fresh water.
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A project in the Western Himalaya has highlighted some valuable lessons for the future.
At least 70 people died in a bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan in August – most of them lawyers.
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A new tool is tracking attacks on people for their religion, politics, caste, ethnicity, gender, class and sexual orientation.
Members of Hindu Sena, a right wing Hindu group, shout slogans during a protest against Hillary Clinton in New Delhi.
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Regardless of US presidential results, India needs to keep the United States close to maintain the balance of power in South Asia.
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Narendra Modi’s government is drumming up war hysteria on the eve of crucial state elections. The gathering storm threatens India’s increasingly beleaguered democracy.
Protestants hold a Sunday service in the open air in Jakarta. Their efforts to erect their own church buildings have been blocked by hardline Muslim groups.
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Truth’s victory over hate propaganda is neither automatic nor preordained. It requires a commitment to equal rights and norms of tolerance.
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Britain and India may be linked by colonial ties, but India is intent on forging a new relationship based on in its own interests.
A portrait of Indian poet and musician Rabindranath Tagore.
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In 1913, an Indian literary giant named Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-white person to win the literature prize. He wrote over 2,000 songs and, like Dylan’s, they still resonate today.
Challenging times for some BRICS countries.
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BRICS is slowly being written off as a bloc that can administer coherent political action.
One of the major benefits for BRICS is economic cooperation.
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BRICS goes into its eighth summit with lots of hurdles. Sanusha Naidu consideres its future prospects.
China and the US are at the centre of multilateral trade talk disagreements.
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With no sign of resolution in the near future the collapse of multilateral trade negotiations, tagged as the Doha round, risks breeding a major crisis.
The Indian government risks a serious escalation of violence if the Pakistani government and militant groups in that country respond with even more attacks.
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As the latest attack on an Indian army camp shows, India’s shift in policy from strategic restraint to preemptive self-defence is a serious gamble.
Members of the Non-Aligned Movement meet at the session of the 17th summit of heads of state and government.
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The Non-Aligned Movement member states enjoy cohesion on few issues. Historically, their heterogeneity ranged from absolute monarchs to socialist presidents.
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Nearly 5m tonnes of coal will soon be shipped through the Sundarbans each year.
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A long-festering military and diplomatic sore has been dramatically reopened. Can it ever be healed?